Famine Sufferers drown Themselves in the Jamna, 1289 (litho)

Famine Sufferers drown Themselves in the Jamna, 1289. Firoz Shah Khilji overthrew the dynasty of the Slave Kings of Delhi in 1289. In the same year a terrible famine occurred throughout Northern India. It is best described in the actual words of the contemporary chronicle: - "In the Siwalik (Himalayan foot-hills) the dearth was greatly felt. The Hindus of that country came into Delhi with their families, twenty or thirty of them together, and in the extremity of hunger drowned themselves in the Jamna." Illustration for Hutchinson's History of the Nations (Hutchinson, c.1920). Note: Image has been digitally enhanced to facilitate repro.